Re: USAGE: The name "Chiang Kai-shek"

In a message dated 12/02/2002 02.11.18 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG quotes Kou
(Douglas Koller, Latin & French) & writes:

>> "Teoh" for "Zhang"? Who'da thunk.
>
>Actually, "Teoh" is the most common romanization of _zhang1_ in the
>northwestern parts of Malaysia, as well as Singapore, where the Chinese
>populations are mainly Hokkien speakers. If you visit those parts of
>Malaysia, you'll almost certainly run across a Teoh. It does come from
>the Hokkien pronunciation of _zhang1_, after all.
    LMAO... But of course to truly know what family-line another Zhang1/Teoh
is from, one has to compare the written characters (& mayhaps even compare
family histories). Added to the confusion are those who are "paper
descendants" -  persons (and even whole retainer families) adopted into a
"major" family.

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